Please join Sarah Shepard Gallery on Thursday, April 24th, 6-8pm, to celebrate the opening of Selected Works, a solo show of Bay Area artist Stephen Beal’s paintings. The exhibition will be on view April 24-May 31, 2025.
Sarah Shepard Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Selected Works, a solo exhibition of paintings by Bay Area artist Stephen Beal. The grid—ubiquitous, logical, resolute, infinite—acts as inspiration, structure, and image in Beal’s work. In these paintings, the penciled matrices function as vehicles to explore the subtleties of color and brush stroke. Selected Works includes some of Beal’s smaller white paintings, a selection of earlier dot paintings in varied colors, and a series of new black paintings. With grid as structure and paint as subject, this collection of work offers a musical reflection on an illustrious visual form.
Stephen Beal lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been widely exhibited at George Lawson Gallery, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, Bucheon Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Galereya A3, Oliver Art Center, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beal served as President of California College of the Arts (CCA) from 2008-2023, before which he was the provost.
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